~Anthrax: a fatal, infectuous disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals including humans.
~Apoplectic: A person who has a ruptured blood vessel in an organ, especially the brain.
~Asafetida: a gum resin having a bitter, acrid taste and an obnoxious odor.
~Bokanovsky’s Process: A method used to force a human egg bud by arresting its growth, producing 96 identical people.
~Chloroformate: used in medicine as an anesthetic and a solvent.
~Chloropicrin: a poisonous liquid that causes the eyes to water and headaches; used in insecticides, fungicide, and in chemical warfare.
~Decanting: Process of removing embryos from the bottles in which they grow.
~Dichlorethyl sulphide: a liquid chemical warfare agent; causes burns, blindness, death.
~Ectogenesis: Reproduction outside the body.
~Freemartin: A sterile person; in A Brave New World 70% of the females are freemartin by dosing the embryos with male sex hormones.
~Hypnopaedia: sleep-teaching.
~Indefatigably: incapable of being tired out.
~Hydrocyanic acid: a highly poisonous liquid.
~Lupus: tuberculosis of the skin characterized by brownish nodular swelling.
~Malthusian belt: a belt holding contraceptives to be used to prevent pregnancy.
~Morphia: a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, used primarily in medicine as a sedative and to induce sleep.
~Phosgene: a poisonous, volatile liquid or suffocating gas, a chemical warfare compound: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
~Pneumatic: efficient; used as a compliment in the Utopia. Podsnap’s Technique: Method to speed the ripening of ovary, making it possible to increase the number an ovary can produce.
~Predestination: The process of determining which embryos will grow up to do particular jobs.
~Proliferate: to produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division.
~Soma: A drug used in the Utopia to escape from surroundings; it intoxicates and tranquilizes without side effects.
~Viviparous: bearing live young, as mammals do.
